As it is, necessity has forced her to marry a peasant, almost for a crust of bread, and to blush for him whenever she sees anybody.

The absolute top of the volcano consisted of a ridge, nearly ten feet thick, of solid masses of stone covered with a crust of lava bleached by the action of the escaping gas.

One spot, denuded of trees, from two to three hundred paces in breadth and about five hundred in length, was, with the exception of a few places overgrown with turf, covered with a crust of silicious dross, which here and there formed large connected areas, but was generally broken up into flaky plates by the vertical springs which pierced it.

Mr. Woods, as he sat up at the conclusion of the singing vigorously to applaud, would have shared his last possession, his ultimate crust, with that unknown benefactor of mankind.

No; I preferred eating a crust of bread and a cucumber in quiet. 29th July.

The shores and hills were thickly scattered over with large masses of a dark red-coloured sandstone covered with a crust of quartz; the latter substance was not however found in a crystallized state.

The rocks are of sandstone, in nearly horizontal strata, coated with a crust of crystallized quartz and coloured by a ferruginous oxide.

Seating herself upon a stool, she jerked off the lid of the kettle, and, to her horror and dismay, found not the favourite haricot, but a piece of cheese-rind, a crust of dry bread, and a cold potatoe.

"And this," said he, putting the remains of a crust into his wallet, "and this should have been thy portion," said he, "hadst thou been alive to have shared it with me."

He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again, as if to eat it; held it some time in his handthen laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridlelooked wistfully at the little arrangement he had madeand then gave a sigh.

Prepare syrup to fill the hollow of the lake, to represent the water; having previously modelled in gum paste little swans, place them in various parts of the syrup; put it into the stove for three hours, then make a small hole through the paste, under your lake, to drain off the syrup; a crust will remain with the swans fixed in it, representing the water.

Were he to continue to indite panegyrical verses, like those to Clarendon, he stood a chance of having a few guineas tossed to him now and then by a patron, like a crust to an unfortunate cur.

It is really of a pie crust yellow of various tones.

Is there anything in the closet that we can get to eat?" "No," said Sally; "I've looked all through the closet; but there isn't a crust of bread, or a cold potato; nor anything to eat.

They do not have to pray for the extra crust when starvation hovers near; for the softening of an obdurate landlord's heart; for strength in temptation, light in darkness, salvation from vice; for a friend in friendlessness; for that miracle of miracles, an opportunity to struggling ambition; for the ending of a dark night, the breaking of day; and, oh!

The bread would have a good firm crust on it.

Dared you break the crust and bullyrag 'emhot, fierce and angry, what wide beaks buzz plain Saxon as ever spoke Witenagemot!

They crossed the Green River Mountains, breaking the crust of the snow and leading their animals, being reduced at the time to tallow and roots for their own sustenance.

So it was with James;in full tide of worldly energy and ambition, there had been forming over his mind that hard crust, that skepticism of the spiritual and exalted, which men of the world delight to call practical sense; he had been suddenly arrested and humbled by the revelation of a nature so much nobler than his own that he seemed worthless in his own eyes.

If you'd like another crust o' bread or an extra half pint o' water you've only got to mention it.

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded witha crust; some say, a very thin crust, such as might be got up by a skilful patissier, and over which gilded court-flies, and even scaraboei, may crawl with safety, butwhich must inevitably cave in beneath the boot-heels of a real, true, thinking man.

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded witha crust; some say, a very thin crust, such as might be got up by a skilful patissier, and over which gilded court-flies, and even scaraboei, may crawl with safety, butwhich must inevitably cave in beneath the boot-heels of a real, true, thinking man.

The morning's battle-ground is seen In lifted glades, like meadows rare; The blood-drops on the snow-crust there Like clover in the white-week show Flushed fields of death, that call again Call to our men, and not in vain, For that way must the stormers go.

So, then, Solidity's a crust The core of fire below; All may go well for many a year, But who can think without a fear Of horrors that happen so? Magnanimity Baffled.

A soldier, touched with compassion, takes a crust from his pocket to reward the dancing dog, which, overcome by the temptation, drops on his four legs, runs to him, and devours it, for which delinquency the old man beats him severely.